150 Events & Concerts: Eastern Counties

Cambridge
Saturday, March 19
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Dona Nobis Pacem
Also: Sibelius Symphony No.2
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Alison Rose, soprano
Tristan Humbleton, bass-baritone
Harry Sever, conductor
Tickets £12
Students/ Concessions £10
7.30pm
https://cambridgephilharmonic.com/concert/vaughan_williams__sibelius/

Ipswich
Saturday 25th June
Ipswich Corn Exchange
Symphony no 2 ‘The London’
Britten Dances from the opera ‘Gloriana’
Elgar Cello Concerto
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra
Max Calver – cello
Adam Gatehouse –conductor
Tickets from Regent Theatre Ipswich
https://ipswichtheatres.co.uk/
£15 and £14 concessions

King’s Lynn Festival
Sunday, July 17th – 10.00 AM (?) – King’s Lynn Minster
Festival service including music by RVW 

Monday, July 25th – 11.00 am – Town Hall
Coffee Concert
The Hill Quartet – Ben Mead – piano
Tenor – TBC
Vaughan Williams. ‘On Wenlock Edge’

Saturday, July 29th – 2.30 pm Town Hall
Recital/lecture based on the book ‘A Norfolk Rhapsody’ by Elizabeth James and Jill Bennet, inspired by a lecture RVW gave in the town in 1952. 

July 30th – Corn Exchange 7.30 pm
Royal  Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. & soloist – TBC)
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Beethoven Symphony No.7
https://www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/

September 21st 7.30 pm
Assembly Room (Town Hall)
King’s Lynn Music Society
‘RVW – A Life Through Music’ JT -talk. 

Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Sunday 29th May
St Andrew’s Hall
Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits (Commissioned for the Festival in 1936)
Mozart. Divertimento in D major, K. 136
Britten Sinfonia
Norwich Philharmonic Chorus
William Vann -conductor
Tickets £7.50 – £40.00
https://nnfestival.org.uk

Saturday, November 5th 7.30pm St Andrew’s Hall
Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 7 – ‘Sinfonia Antartica‘
Rest of programme TBC
nnfestival.org.uk

Bury St Edmunds
Saturday 15th October 2022. 7.30pm – St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.1 – ‘A Sea Symphony’
Symphony No.2 – ‘A London Symphony’
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra
Leslie Olive, conductor
https://www.suffolkphil.org/copy-of-home

Thaxted Festival, Essex
Thaxted Festival 2022  With its origins in Gustav Holst’s 1916 Whitsun Festival.
Venue in Thaxted Parish Church.
1st July Mass in G Minor. (Kings College London Choir and the English Chamber Orchestra, together with Holst’s ‘Cloud Messenger’ conductor Joseph Fort)
2nd July Songs of Travel. (Roderick Williams and Susie Allan) (There will be a RVW inspired new commission by Sarah Cattley with exact details tbc).
Andrew Jenkins – Artistic Director
https://www.thaxtedfestival.co.uk/

Hadleigh Choral Society
St Mary’s Church Hadleigh
Saturday, April 2nd. 7.30 pm
Hadleigh Choral Society
Five Mystical Songs
http://www.hadleighchoralsociety.org.uk/concerts/forthcoming-concerts/

Granta Chorale – Saffron Walden
Saturday 2nd April 2022 7.30 pm
Venue: St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden
Price: £15, with under 25s £5.
Mass in G minor (1922)
Lark Ascending (violin & piano version, 1914)
Three Shakespeare Songs (1951)
Four of the Five English Folk Songs (1913)
Rhosymedre (from the Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes [1920])
‘O Western Wind’ – An Anniversary (2021) by Sarah Cattley – Stainer & Bell new commission.
The programme, which will be a mixture of music and dramatic readings about RVW in Saffron Walden and the London Field Ambulance
www.grantachorale.org.uk

Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 4th December 7.30 pm
Venue: Saffron Hall
RVW In the Fen Country
Korngold – Violin Concerto (Alex Redington- soloist)
Shostakovich – Symphony No.12.
Richard Hull – Director
https://www.saffronsymphony.org/

Across the County of Suffolk
Promoted by Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra
‘The Lark’s Flight over Suffolk’ Summer 2022
‘The Lark Ascending’ (orchestral version) ‘The Lark’s Flight over Suffolk’ tells the story of ‘The Lark Ascending’ and of RVW’s life, his triumphs and his disappointments, in music and words. The Lark Ascending features along with his Oboe Concerto and other captivating music by this outstanding and influential British composer.’
Launching at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds on Thursday 30th June 2022, ‘The Lark’s Flight’ will then go on tour to five further venues around the county of Suffolk as well as RVW himself (played by an actor). There will be a small orchestra of 14 musicians and soloists.
“The Lark’s Flight” is directed by conductor Leslie Olive.

PERFORMANCES
Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal Thursday 30 June 7.30pm
Eye, Town Hall Friday 1 July 7.30pm
Aldeburgh, Jubilee Hall Sunday 3 July 4.00pm (time tbc)
Carlton Marshes, Visitor Centre (Suffolk Wildlife Trust) Friday 8 July 7.30pm
Felixstowe, St Andrew’s Church Saturday 9 July 7.30pm
Hadleigh, Church Sunday 10 July 4.00pm (time tbc) 

Norwich Cathedral
8th – 9th October
We will certainly be including RVW choral music in the services during this weekend.
Ashley Grote – Director of Music
(Ashley was the Assistant Organist in Gloucester for the 50th anniversary of his death, when there was a festival there, with Gloucester Choral Society and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
https://www.cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/events 

Sunday 9th October
St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP
10.30 am Sung Eucharist with  anthem ‘O taste and see’

Sunday 23 October 6.30 p.m.
Evensong ‘ Let all the world in every corner sing’
(please note this service will be sung by St John’s Lower Voices and Truro Cathedral Girl Choristers,)

Tuesday 25 October  6.30  p.m.
Evensong  Anthem ‘Love bade me welcome’
Andrew Nethsingher (Director of Music)
https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/

Stowmarket
Saturday 15th October
Redwood Suite, Red Gables, Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 1BE
RVW Folk Song Project Launch
With ‘Potiphar’s Apprentice’
12.00 – 2.00 pm
Admission Free
https://www.eatmt.org.uk/

Stowmarket
Saturday 26th November
Redwood Suite, Red Gables, Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 1BE
Conference to celebrate the folk songs and music collected in East Anglia
10.00am – 4.00 pm
Admission Free
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vaughan-williams-in-east-anglia-conference-tickets-420244301017

or email: vaughanwilliamsfolk@yahoo.co.uk

Norwich
5th November
St Andrew’s Hall 7.30pm
In the Fen Country’
Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra

Compiled by John Treadway (1st October 2022)